About Pamela
Pamela Shifman serves as the Executive Director of NoVo Foundation. Pamela previously spent 6 years at UNICEF Headquarters, where she led UNICEF’s efforts to end gender-based violence in conflict-affected settings including in Darfur, Eastern Congo, Uganda, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Prior to joining the UN, Pamela served as the Co-Executive Director of Equality Now, where she focused extensively on trafficking of girls and women and convened a coalition of organizations for passage of the first US legislation on trafficking in persons and the UN Transnational Crime Protocol on Trafficking in Persons. From 1996-1998, Pamela served as legal advisor for the ANC Parliamentary Women’s Caucus in South Africa where she supported development of South Africa’s first post-apartheid legislation addressing domestic violence, and led a National Campaign on Ending Violence against Women.
Pamela is the author of several articles on women’s and girls’ rights, including Trafficking and Human Rights in a Globalized World (Oxfam Journal of Gender and Development) and Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict: A Need for More Focused Action (Refugee Survey Quarterly). Pamela is the recipient of the 2011 Lucretia Mott Award from Women’s Way and was named as one of the 21 Leaders for the 21st Century by Women’s e-News.
Pamela has taught Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan and at Hunter College, and she holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
